I think we keep gardeners in the
communication same as farmers and consumers. Similar to Erling, my
understanding is, a gardener can also be a professionel (or is
there any other word?).
If not affected directly, they will be
affected indirectly. It is important to mention gardeners, since
they are the one to grow vegetables which most patents are
concerned with. Same / similar wording is in the report.
we also know from text of licence /
material transfer from ENZA that gardeners are informed they only
can sell tomatoes but not breed (thanks again for excellent tomato
seeds to Anne-Charlotte. I will send photo as soon as I added
technical toppings).
so yes, let us keep them in the text.
regarding editorials: always useful.
But we also need some lines for more general and broader
communciation.
our main audience, at this stage, are
not the media, but professionals and politics. It looks like I
will have a meeting with German Ministry of Justice in May - keep
you updated.
cheers
Christoph
Am 04.05.20 um 23:55 schrieb Erling
Frederiksen:
Dear Anna-C. , Christoph and you all
Interresting - in Danish a "gartner" is definitely a
professionel and not a private person. So "gartnere" or
"gartnerier" , in Denmark, will always be professionels. A
private persen like me would never be described as a
"gartner" even though I have a big garden and many plants. I
could be described as a "havemand" (gardenperson/man) (have =
garden). Just to say, that we must be aware of how the Words
are understood, when we translate and write in public. Thanks
Anna-C.
These pressreleases do not have much effect in small
Denmark, with very few qualified journalists and medias. I
think we should think more about getting into writing small
articles, in our own names, to the Newspapers and medias.
"Letters to the editor" - "Opinion" etc. - these would have
better chance (in Denmark!) to be published than our
pressreleases. The medias get too many pressreleases every
day.
The "Ingeniøren" has written back, that they will write
about the patentsprobelms - and they are nomally OK and
trustworthly and jordbrug.dg / greenupdate.dk
has promised til publish an article (in ny name) very soon.
The relevant politicians in the Parliament /Folketinget has
got the Report (Elleve grunde...) but they are mentally
infected by Corona...
I think we should not talk about "gardeners" if they
are not directly concerned by patent on vegetables.
I mean in France (and in Germany, I just checked it) :
patent have no effect if you grow your own vegeables for
your private needs
It could be counter productive for all of us if we
think we could not use or multiplicate our
vegetables/seeds when we actually have the right to do so.
When we have a right it is better to use it and not to
ignore it.
Patent Gesetz
§ 11
Die
Wirkung des Patents erstreckt sich nicht auf1. Handlungen,
die im privaten Bereich zu nichtgewerblichen Zwecken
vorgenommen werden;
I think we can use the same examples for patent
applications in both
cases (Yes and No), while the content of the PR has to
adapted to the
decision in many other details.